Tamikio Dooley : Hi! I’m Tamikio L. Dooley, the award- winning author. I write fiction and nonfiction of crime, thriller, mystery, fantasy, historical romance and western, apocalypse, and paranormal. In my spare time, I write poetry, health books, children’s books, diaries, and journals. I received certificates for featuring my short stories published in Ukiyoto Publishing’s Anthologies, and received an honorable recognition as the best crime author of September 2016. I also won my first crystal trophy award.

Tamikio Dooley : My ambitions for my writing career is to become an best-selling author, and win two more awards. Other ambitions include, progressing as an excellent writer, researching nonfiction writing focus, and scheduling books singings.

Tamikio Dooley : I've had the passion for writing and have been since 16-years-old. I started writing for the public audience in January 2015.

Tamikio Dooley : I write because I love expressing my creative nature and dreams in words. I want readers to develop the same imagination, so we can travel together. Sometimes, I want to escape the bad things of the world, I want to escape reality. I'm obsessed with reading and collection books. Reading helps me escape from reality, pulling me inside the author's world.

Tamikio Dooley : Interacting with friends, family, and associates on social media, such as Facebook, sparked my passion for writing to the world.

Tamikio Dooley : My ideas comes from dreams, mostly. Also, reading books from favorite authors, and watching movies, helps me gather information to start my writing. In fact, Dawn of the Walkers, my initial zombie apocalypse book was written from a dream I had one night. The dream encouraged me to write my first zombie apocalypse book, and Dawn of the Walkers became my bestsellers.

Tamikio Dooley : The thing about writing, in my case, is running out of ideas for a new book at the moment. My imagination is constantly on full blast, so mainly, I always something to write about.

Tamikio Dooley : The easiest thing about reading to me is I have the ability to write multi-genre. I can write about anything, fiction or nonfiction, and I can finish a book in a month or less, depending on how deep the writing takes me.

Tamikio Dooley : Dawn of the Walkers, indeed, is the first books in the first series, The Warhead Hunters: The Zombie Apocalypse Decimation Series. I'm proud to say, each book is better written than the last book.

Tamikio Dooley : My thought on writing a book series is to keep the story going, if the story is worth it. I wrote some books I felt shouldn't be part of a series and should remain independent books. For me, writing book series creates personal relationships between characters and readers. It's like a 'love and hate, or love or hate' type of thing readers develop with certain characters.

Tamikio Dooley : My favorite positive saying is 'Always research your writing, whether its fiction or nonfiction, with well-determined facts. Facts in fiction makes the story further believable and enjoyable!

Tamikio Dooley : In five-five years or less, I see myself as a best-selling author, with more than two awards. I will have the opportunity to schedule my first book signing in Michigan soon.

Tamikio Dooley : Advice I would give my younger self, I wish had followed up on my dreams to become a writer sooner. I have meet my goals and beyound.